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Maria V. Altmann’s lawsuit to recover six Klimt paintings seized by the Nazis was not dismissed by U.S. District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper, who set an October 18 hearing to fix a trial date. The works have been displayed at the Austrian Gallery and include a portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, Altmann’s late aunt.
telegraph.co.uk
Kate Connolly reports from Berlin about the Flick Collection, a modern art collection lent to the Hamburger Bahnhof by Friedrich Christian Flick, a former playboy and heir to a Nazi-era industrialist, amid controversy over alleged blood money financing. The collection includes works by Alberto Giacometti, Bruce Naumann, Gerhard Richter and Kurt Schwitters.
telegraph.co.uk
The painting by Claude Monet of the Houses of Parliament is expected to fetch up to £10 million at Christie’s, the most expensive Monet view of London auctioned to date.